Photo: Pina de Fuego Cocktail
Tequila and Mezcal cocktails are a fun bit of cocktails to make. Tequila can be sweet, dark, rich and have so much flavor. Mezcal is rich, smokey and adds so much flavor to cocktails!
Most anything can be mixed with tequila or mezcal, one of our favorites is grapefruit juice. But, we also love margaritas, and using it in anything with spice.
Mezcal has been fun for us making some tiki cocktails, and like with tequila with grapefruit juice, or in a margarita, or as a replacement for whisky in some cocktails!
This raspberry margarita is a delicious summer cocktail recipe. We add the sweet flavor of raspberries to a smoky margarita. This will make a fan of even the most reluctant mezcal drinkers in your life. So, how many times in your life have you had a premixed bottled margarita? How many times have …
This pineapple margarita is flavored with some spice with jalapeno infused triple sec! A spicy Pineapple Margarita is always called for, right? We think so! Some great flavors have combined in this margarita to bring some great layers of spice and heat to the sweetness of the juice! A must make for all …
We featured the sweet and spicy flavors flavors of Dorothy Lynch, pineapple, tequila and mezcal to create this unusual, delicious cocktail! We love a good challenge, and when we were asked to work with a classic Nebraska flavor, we couldn’t pass up the chance to play around with something sweet, tangy, and found …
This fall margarita is a great flavor combo of spicy triple sec and apple cider! We wanted to make a margarita for fall, and we wanted to make sure to have some of the flavors that are relevant in autumn! In our cocktail garden, we have an abundance of rosemary, and we know …
A Coffee and Banana Tiki Cocktail that’s a great combo of tropical flavors! This summer has been crazy season, with lots of overtime at work and not nearly enough cocktail blogging! All that extra work means a whole bunch of time dreaming about vacations to far away destinations like someplace with a beach …
In the spirit of both Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby, here is a Mexican mint julep cocktail to celebrate them together! So what do you do when two celebrations fall on the same day? In the spring there aren’t a whole lot of holidays or events that call for big celebrations, …
A fabulous Tiki drink with gin and mezcal Cocktail, that takes away the winter doldrums! When you hear the word Tiki, you typically think of being served a sweet rum soaked cocktail full of fruit (and we love those!) but as more folks explore the world of Tiki, all kinds of drinks …
A twist on the classic Paloma cocktail recipe, we added some strawberry flavor to this Strawberry Paloma! While all the craze on the days leading up to Cinco de Mayo was about margaritas, we were drinking another great Mexican cocktail the Paloma. We needed a good drink for the weekend festivities and …
Great, light simple tequila drinks, perfect for anytime of the year! One of the cool perks of being a cocktail blogger is getting the chance to try out lots of other spirits than the old sorts that we are all familiar with from our days drinking in college. One spirit that we …
A Spicy tequila and pineapple cocktail! One of our best tequila drinks packs a punch! When the calendar rolls around to the end of April, it never fails that our social media feed fills up with lots of pictures and recipes of margarita. These are to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. While we love …
